“where the petitioner is pro se, particularly in civil rights cases, 1 [courts should] should construe the pleadings liberally and . . . afford the petitioner the benefit of 2 any doubt.”
How later courts described this case
- “where the petitioner is pro se, particularly in civil rights cases, 1 [courts should] should construe the pleadings liberally and . . . afford the petitioner the benefit of 2 any doubt.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
SUR PETITION FOR REHEARING
July 8, 1994.
The petition for rehearing filed by appellants in the above-entitled case having been submitted to the judges who participated in the decision of this Court and to all the other available circuit judges of the circuit in regular active service, and no judge who concurred in the decision having asked for rehearing, and a majority of the circuit judges of the circuit in regular service not having voted for rehearing, the petition for rehearing by the panel and the Court in banc, is denied. Judges Lewis and McKee would grant rehearing.